wtf movie
Oops! I let the morning get away from my by actually working!
Oh, well. I took myself to the AMC in the U District to see The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Then I came home and posted the shortest review, by far, I have ever posted. It's only three words long, if you don't count the five averaged grades.
I will fully admit it was kind of a copout. I didn't have time to write the review after getting home around 9:45 last night, and I also didn't really feel like writing a longer review this morning. And the more I thought about it, the more I decided there was nothing better to say about it anyway, really, than "What. the fuck"
I could have mentioned other things, like who the two actors were, how good their acting was, that it was shot in black and white and with an unusual aspect ratio that made it nearly square. Aside from the actor names, though, all that was already indicated by the grades themselves. And as for the script, either it's genuinely incoherent or it flew over my head. The movie seems to go out of its way not to make clear what is supposed to be actually real, and I found that frustrating. Which one of these two men is going mad? Is either of them? Is one of them gaslighting the other? I found no means by which to answer these questions and therefore found the movie, in spite of it being otherwise very engaging, almost totally incomprehensible. If it's possible to "get it," then it's "gotten" by people smarter than I am. Which I suppose includes the vast majority of critics.
I still gave it a B+ because it was very well done with the rather notable exception of the script.
I never did have any of the scratch-made pumpkin pie yesterday, which Shobhit made on Monday. Shobhit did, though. I had already brushed my teeth when he got home. I'll have some in honor of his birthday tonight. He's 46 years old today! We're going to go out for dinner at Saffron Grill, which means I really should have aimed to lay off the sweet snacks at work today. I failed miserably in that endeavor; a bunch of Little Secrets candy samples were sent to the office today.
I did take a small bite of the pumpkin pie before leaving this morning, I will confess. It was delicious. Shobhit really impressed me with this particular pie, I must say.
I also attempted to test out how long a commute to work via trains-only would be today: Light Rail plus Monorail, since Monorail now takes Orca Cards. I figured, as opposed to busing on the #11 downtown on Pine and then walking the last 20 minutes to work, which takes roughly half an hour, it would probably take about the same amount of time, given the right timing of departures, walking ten minutes to the Capitol Hill Light Rail Station, riding Light Rail to Westlake Station, transferring there to the Monorail, then walking ten minutes from Seattle Center to work.
And it might have worked, too, if not for one pesky little detail: I pulled out my phone to double check Monorail operating hours as soon as I got up to the station on the fourth floor of Westlake Center . . . and discovered their winter hours don't start until 7:30. Shit. That option doesn't work if my aim is to get to work by 7:30. I wound up walking the rest of the way to work and arrived this morning at 7:38.
I'll just have to try again in spring or summer if and when those hours expand, and they start earlier than 7:30. Until then, this just isn't the option I thought it might be. Oh well!
[posted 12:37 pm]